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KPS — COOKIE NOTICE

This Cookie Notice (Notice) explains how KPS uses cookies and other tracking technologies on and through our website kpspiping.com.

This Notice is to be read alongside the KPS Privacy Notice which explains how KPS uses personal information. If you do not accept our use of cookies please disable them following our guidance below.

1. What are web cookies?

Web cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by a website when you visit it. They contain details of your browsing history on that website and distinguish you from other users. Cookies send data back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or allow another website to recognise the cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and, for instance, remember your preferences and generally improve your online user experience. Like most websites, KPS website uses cookies.

Although this Notice refers to the general term “cookie”, which is the main method used by our website to store information, the browser’s local storage space is also used for the same purpose and we may use other tracking technologies through this website such as web beacons, clear GIFs or pixel tags. We usually use such tracking technologies to count users who visit certain pages of our website and to deliver branded services as well as to help determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.

As a result, the information included in this Notice is likewise applicable to all such tracking technologies that we use.

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

2. Why do we use cookies?

A. To let you do things on our website – for example, cookies enable you to fill in application forms or view content.

B. To collect anonymous statistics – the information collected by cookies enables us to improve the website through use of figures and patterns. For example, it is really useful to see which pages of the website – and therefore which of our services – are the most popular and how users are interacting with them.

C. To improve your experience of our website – for example, to prevent you having to re-enter details when you have already done so, or by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.

D. To ensure that our website is secure.

We use the following categories of cookies on our website and the table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why. You can also choose to accept or refuse their use by category or individually, except for the essential cookies that do not require your consent.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for our websites to function properly and ensure our services are accessible to you (e.g., accessing website functionalities, navigation, filling in forms). You may disable them by changing your browser settings described in section 3 below. However, some of the website’s functions may not work properly without these cookies.

KPS uses the following essential cookies:

Name of cookie Provider Purpose of the cookie Duration Type
Google Analytics
Google
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our websites. We use the information to compile reports and help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the sites, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. Click here for an overview of privacy relating to Google Analytics.
26 months
Necessary
Acceptance Cookie
KPS
This cookie notes your acceptance of KPS’s Cookie Policy and remembers your choice for 90 days.
90 days
Necessary
__cf_bm
KPS
The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie
A few seconds
Necessary
wordpress_test_cookie
KPS
Description: Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabledOn login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area, /wp-admin/
Session
Necessary
BIGipServerab61web-nginx-app_https
KPS
This cookie name is associated with the BIG-IP product suite from company F5. Usually associated with managing sessions on load balanced servers, to ensure user requests are routed consistently to the correct server. The common root is BIGipServer most commonly followed by a domain name, usually the one that it is hosted on, but not always.
Session
Necessary
OptanonAlertBoxClosed
KPS
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
365 Days
Necessary
OptanonConsent
KPS
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.
365 Days
Necessary

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies enable us to remember information that changes the way the websites behave or look, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

KPS uses the following performance cookies (you can change your choices using our Cookies Settings):

Name of cookie Provider Purpose of the cookie Duration Type
_mkto_trk
KPS
This cookie is associated with an email marketing service provided by Marketo. This tracking cookie allows a website to link visitor behaviour to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness.
729 Days
Performance
_ga
KPS
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
730 Days
Performance
_gid
KPS
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
1 Day
Performance

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies allow us to collect data, so that we can better understand how visitors engage with our websites. Such tracking tools collect information regarding usage of our websites (e.g., time of access, pages and content viewed, links clicked, referral sites, information regarding prior visits to the website).

KPS uses the following targeting cookies (you can change your choices using our Cookies Settings):

Name of cookie Provider Purpose of the cookie Duration Type
_fbp
KPS
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
90 Days
Targeting
lang
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
Session
Targeting
AnalyticsSyncHistory
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
30 Days
Targeting
li_gc
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
722 Days
Targeting
bcookie
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
731 Days
Targeting
lidc
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
1 Day
Targeting
UserMatchHistory
linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
30 Days
Targeting
www.facebook.com
This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world’s largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.
Session
Targeting
CONSENT
youtube.com
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
6112 Days
Targeting
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
youtube.com
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.
180 Days
Targeting
YSC
youtube.com
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Session
Targeting
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
youtube.com
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
179 Days
Targeting
DEVICE_INFO
youtube.com
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
179 Days
Targeting
bscookie
www.linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
731 Days
Targeting
test_cookie
doubleclick.net
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange
A few seconds
Targeting
_GRECAPTCHA
www.google.com
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear.
180 Days
Targeting
lang
ads.linkedin.com
This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn’s marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targetng.
Session
Targeting

3. How to block cookies through your browser

By accepting our cookie notification when you visit the website and/or using the tool above, you can choose to consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time.

You can also set up your browser so that cookies cannot be placed on your device. Click on the links below to find out how to change your cookie settings in:

Internet explorer

Firefox

Chrome

Safari

Opera

iPhone and iPad

Samsung

4. Updating this notice

We may update our use of cookies from time to time and consequently we may update this Notice. We therefore recommend that you check this Notice regularly. We will notify you of any significant changes by way of a notice on our website or by contacting you directly when reasonably possible.

4. Contact us

If you have any question or requests in connection with these Disclosures or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to info@kpspiping.com.  Alternatively, inquiries can be mailed to: KPS, Snaygill Industrial Estate, Keighley Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 2QR, UK

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